Four bikes stopped by Plod on the M4 entry.

[anonymous-user]

Came past them tonight - four (possibly more) super-sporty sports bikes corralled by two traffic cars on the hard shoulder of the M25/M4 entry slip going towards London, bikes on their stands, riders with helmets off, sat in a row along the Armco under the watchful eye of Plod, almost verging on being in custody.
Anyone on here? Can't say they looked massively comfortable or happy about being stopped.

[creampuff]

Yes I saw that. The bikes were on a flat bed truck when I passed.

[4G63T]

stolen bikes? or no insurance/tax/mot? or what? what reasons would the plod take the bikes off them?

[anonymous-user]

Impounding them there and then is usually insurance-related, or stolen. But all four?

[creampuff]

The bikes would have also been removed from the roadside if the riders had been arrested for non insurance related reasons and therefore unable to ride them away.

[jimbop1]

Racing at silly speeds maybe?

[creampuff]

Perhaps one of the bikers will post on here to satisfy our curiosity.

[King Eric]

Surrey Roads Policing twitter account posted today asking if anyone had seen bikers riding dangerously on M23/M25 today to contact them....maybe the same group.

[King Eric]

According to their twitter feed: Holding back traffic to perform high speed stunts. Four arrested for atrocious dangerous driving. Not bright on a Saturday during the day on a major motorway.

[jackh707]

Blimey, sounds interesting.

[PIGINAWIG]

My bad.....

Completely forgot about the gantry cameras and some isolated ones on high steel poles.

The 3 other bikes were a white S1000RR, red R1 and another green ZZR. Or maybe it wasn't me.....

Looks like the perps are in for a world of pain - can't see any links to footage of this yet.

[RemyMartin]

Bloody hell. Sounds like they are going to be reamed royally and if what has been said here is true, I.e the deliberately stopping traffic, then they deserve everything coming there way.

[podman]

King Eric said:

According to their twitter feed: Holding back traffic to perform high speed stunts. Four arrested for atrocious dangerous driving. Not bright on a Saturday during the day on a major motorway.

Not bright at all I would have paid to have seen that...

[Planter]

Thats pretty extreme riding if thats actually what they were doing.......was never going to end well in all honesty though!

[3DP]

King Eric said:

According to their twitter feed: Holding back traffic to perform high speed stunts. Four arrested for atrocious dangerous driving. Not bright on a Saturday during the day on a major motorway.

Would it count as a mitigating factor that they were wisely holding traffic back to clear a safe space to stunt?

I think they are royally fked.

What's the betting that in spite of no-one hurt and no accidents, they get a worse sentence that chummy boy that killed the biker in a smidsy on the other thread?

[podman]

3DP said:

King Eric said:

According to their twitter feed: Holding back traffic to perform high speed stunts. Four arrested for atrocious dangerous driving. Not bright on a Saturday during the day on a major motorway.

Would it count as a mitigating factor that they were wisely holding traffic back to clear a safe space to stunt?

I think they are royally fked.

What's the betting that in spite of no-one hurt and no accidents, they get a worse sentence that chummy boy that killed the biker in a smidsy on the other thread?

Very good point Pete..they will for sure..

Surrey police obviously dont like this sort of caper..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJAdYcXr08

[GTIR]

Super sporty eh.

"atrocious dangerous driving"
Was that on the twitter feed? Is that even a charge.

Edited by GTIR on Sunday 6th April 18:58

[s3fella]

I wonder if anyone died?
I wonder if their actions will cost them more than 260 quid?

[y2blade]

It's not big or clever.

[Willy Nilly]

3DP said:

Would it count as a mitigating factor that they were wisely holding traffic back to clear a safe space to stunt?

I think they are royally fked.

What's the betting that in spite of no-one hurt and no accidents, they get a worse sentence that chummy boy that killed the biker in a smidsy on the other thread?

The bloke that killed the rider made a mistake. It appears that the people in this case deliberately acted like complete idiots.